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Originally Posted by Matata
So now the goal posts have shifted to "sure hes a complete degenerate who's actively collecting corruption money from America's enemies, but it has nothing to do with his dad, dont be silly". Its like drinking koolaid straight out of a fire hose.
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The article i cited was from the time these allegations came to light. It was always known that Hunter Biden was a degenerate.
Of course the whole finding emails on a lap top seemed far fetched and im surprised its real, but it doesnt change the fact that there is no evidence that Joe Biden was implicated at all. In fact, where the Republicans have tried to insert Corrupt Joe Biden into the story (the demand for firing the corrupt prosecutor) was clearly not related.
To be fair, Vox did a pretty good rebuke recently of the way media reacted to the story and how some immediately labeled it as misinformation. This is the world we sort of live in at this point and it's certainly sad.
But the story itself, is just not a good story:
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There were two supposed “smoking guns” about Joe Biden that conservatives touted in the materials. The first was an email the Post called a “blockbuster,” in which an executive at the Ukrainian gas company Burisma thanked Hunter for the “opportunity to meet your father” in 2015. If you’re steeped in Trumpworld lore, this was damning because of the theory that Biden had the corrupt prosecutor general of Ukraine fired to benefit Burisma, and Biden had said he knew nothing about Hunter’s Ukrainian work, but look, a meeting! (Apparently, it was a dinner at Cafe Milano that Hunter had organized, with about a dozen people.) This appears to amount to Vice President Biden seemingly going to one dinner.
The second involved a business venture that Hunter tried to set up with a Chinese energy tycoon in 2017 (after Joe Biden was no longer vice president). One email mentions that the equity split would include “10 held by H for the big guy ?” A former business partner of Hunter’s named Tony Bobulinski came forward to claim “the big guy” was Joe Biden. But a subsequent email from Hunter says his “Chairman” gave him “an emphatic no,” and a further email clarifies that the chairman is his dad.
So this amounts to Joe Biden apparently refusing some deal Hunter tried to enmesh him in. An alternative possibility is that Joe was not actually ever involved and that Hunter had just been throwing his name around. By Bobulinski’s own account, he briefly met Joe Biden the day before and after an event, and the former vice president only said vague things to him (and the proposed deal never came together in the end).
All of this was indeed covered in the press in October 2020 (I wrote about it at the time). So the real objection from
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https://www.vox.com/22992772/hunter-biden-laptop